Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amity Gaige

I was born on an even keel. Family lore says I never cried, even at birth. I felt at ease on earth, in the right place. And like many children, I took comfort in life's regularity: Every few days it rained, the school bus came and went, and my parents were rooted in their union.

Connie Baker

I think sewing is a stress release. I'm not sure people are born quilters, but I do think it's in their make?up to get such joy from it. It's a way to express yourself.

Joanne Woodward

Well, I was born and raised in south Georgia and South Carolina, and I went to school in Louisiana. Nature is very much a part of life in those areas.

Asif Kapadia

Weirdly enough, I live in London - was born there and have lived there all my life - but I hadn't made a film in London for a long time. I hadn't found the right subject. I liked going away, to some far flung place.

Swiss Proverb

You learn through mistakes - no one was born a master

Roger Edmondson

You know if it gets predictable, it wouldn't be interesting. It's been nice to see our concept born out and have drivers from other disciplines want to be here.

Marianne Williamson

We are born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Ernst Zundel

But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.

Herman Melville

If Shakespeare has not been equalled, he is sure to be surpassed, and surpassed by an American born now or yet to be born.

Brett Ratner

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

Richard Branson

Remember the to-do list but don't forget the to-be list.

Tom Graves

We'll be put on a list for money and it can take up to two years before we get that money.

Burn Gorman

I love going on BBC6 and BBC7 and listening to documentaries.

Jill Scott

When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things.

Donald Rumsfeld

Syria's been on the terrorist list for years,

Jess Glynne

I've got quite a few inspirations - the list is kind of endless!

Mark Lister

It's another one off the list and confirms that investors' options have been decreased.

Ryan MacCarthy

The list in Maine is pretty close. It's a tight race.

Archibald Cox

What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The failure of just one person to join, to participate, to do whatever he or she can - your failure or my failure - may mean that there is just one too few to win the fight for sanity, and so leave the world on the road to destruction. Each of us, all of us, must do what we can.

Al Gore

Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction of the environment.

Ludwig von Mises

Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

Edgar Allan Poe

I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.

Viktor E. Frankl

Being tolerant does not mean that I share another ones belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another ones right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.

E. B. White

What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of nothingness. It's the lowest you can go. It's the end of the line. How can something be less than nothing? If there were something that was less than nothing, then nothing would not be nothing, it would be something - even though it's just a very little bit of something. But if nothing is nothing, then nothing has nothing that is less than it is.

Douglas Davis

The Sentence has no end. Sometimes I think it had no beginning. Now I salute its authors, which means all of us. You have made a wild, precious, awful, delicious, lovable, tragic, vulgar, fearsome, divine thing.

Douglas Coupland

I say ‘Uhmm...’ a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says it’s a CPU word. It means you’re assembling data in your head - spooling.

Donald Trump

When I get attacked, I always attack back, if I am attacked unfairly. I've been attacked many times and I don't do it back because they happen to be right. I mean, people happen to be right.

Eliphas Levi

What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.

Anne Sexton

My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.

Eric Antebi

So long as he wears the name tags.

Colin Cooper

You'll have to wait and see. The team will be named on Friday.

Wes Borland

I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the top a golden dove came down...' It's always a bunch of guys sitting around going, 'How about Rotten Chipmunks?

W. Averell Harriman

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

W. C. Fields

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.

Zach Galifianakis

My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad Galifianakis.

Zak Orth

Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.